Tuesday, April 5, 2016

PCG Quoting Ma'an News Agency

Here is PCG quoting from Ma'an News Agency, a Palestinian media outlet based in Bethlehem. PCG quoted Ma'an News Agency in thirteen articles including some written by Stephen Flurry, Brad MacDonald, Ron Fraser, Joel Hilliker and Richard Palmer. Three articles in 2007. Two articles in 2008. Six articles in 2009. Once in 2010. And once in 2016. Three times links are provided to Ma'an News Agency articles in PCG's writings.

Unsurprisingly PCG's writers only quote Ma'an News Agency to reinforce PCG's dogmas regarding their false prophecies concerning the Holy Land. There is a lot of information provided by Ma'an News Agency which contradicts PCG's view regarding events in the Holy Land or present perspectives that contradict PCG's views. This shows once again PCG's bias regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Already, the Palestinian minister of information, Riad Maliki, told the
Ma’an News Agency that now that he had “succeeded in returning part of
them,” the Palestinian government will pursue negotiations with the
Israeli government to return another 18,000 Palestinian refugees from
Iraq. (Olmert Opens Door for Palestinian Right of Return, August 3, 2007.)

On September 30, more than 80 Palestinians, including terrorists
wanted by Israel, crossed into the Gaza Strip from Egypt, according to Hamas and Israeli officials. The Palestinian news agency Maan reported that Egypt allowed 30 or so more Palestinians through the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip October 9.
The Palestinians who have crossed the Egypt-Gaza border in the past
two weeks include members of the military wings of both Hamas and the
terrorist group Islamic Jihad, as well as two Hamas legislators.
Security sources say that some have received extensive military training
in Iran and Syria. Some of the other terrorists had been abroad seeking
medical treatment after fighting in the second intifada, according to
Maan. (Egypt Facilitates Palestinian Terrorists’ Return to Israel, October 11, 2007.)

In an interview with the Palestinian-operated Ma’an News Agency on
September 20, Ahmed Yousef, who advises Hamas Prime Minister Ismail
Haniyeh, said Hamas was engaged in secret discussions with Abbas’s Fatah
movement aimed at reconciling the differences between the two estranged
parties. A few weeks later, Ma’an reported that 25 Fatah leaders in the
West Bank and in Gaza wanted to “hold talks with Hamas to end the
current impasse” (October 16). (Stephen Flurry, Can This Man Save Israel?, November-December 2007.)

A few Middle Eastern news sites, however, reported the story as it happened. According to the Palestinian news agency Ma’an,

Egyptian riot police used water cannons and clubs to suppress a surging crowd of demonstrators. … A number of women lost consciousness in the ensuing violence. The security forces arrested the women, using dogs to break up the crowd. …
Crowds of women gathered at Rafah crossing on Tuesday morning in a
demonstration organized by Change and Reform, the Hamas bloc in the
Palestinian Legislative Council. (Stephen Flurry, Another Hamas Victory in the Propaganda War, January 25, 2008.)

The Palestinian news agency Ma’an reports Mughrabi was a member of
Hamas. Israeli police said he had no criminal record, and there is
nothing to indicate this attack was pre-planned. Mughrabi was not a
known terrorist. But, filled with Hamas’s explosive ideologies, he was a
time bomb waiting to explode. All it took was the right catalyst, which
in this case was his cousin rejecting his hand in marriage, and he
quickly became an enraged terrorist prepared to use Israeli soldiers and citizens as an outlet for his anger. How many other Mughrabis are there in Jerusalem? (Stephen Flurry, Jerusalem: Palestinian Slams Car Into Israeli Soldiers, September 23, 2008.)

On Wednesday night, according to Ma’an News Agency,
a Fatah parliamentarian and an aide to Mahmoud Abbas met with a Hamas
delegation in Cairo to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and reconstruction,
the politically motivated arrests and torturous tactics employed by both
factions, the Palestinian media incitement and the outcome of the Israeli election.
These talks were held in advance of a more comprehensive dialogue to be
held between both parties later this month. Memri reported that both
sides have already agreed to stop the media war. (Stephen Flurry, Israel Votes for Security, February 13, 2009.)

Fatah and Hamas to Unify?

Fatah and Hamas leaders have reached “an agreement in principle” that will lead to joint leadership
of the Palestinian Authority, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an
news agency. They plan to form a joint government until elections take
place. The two terrorist groups also agreed to a prisoner exchange
between them.
Representatives from Hamas and Fatah met in Cairo to end the two
years of disunity within the Palestinian Authority. The two groups also
agreed to stop all media attacks against each other, according to an aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Joel Hilliker and Brad MacDonald, The Weekend Web, March 1, 2009.)

The next day, a spokesman from Hamas’s military wing delivered a prophetically electrifying
response to Israel’s efforts to defend itself against illegal Arab
intrusions. Hamas official Abu Ubayda “threatened Israel of an ‘explosion’ if it continues to consolidate control of Jerusalem,” the Ma’an News Agency reported. Ubayda also warned that “the Judaization of Jerusalem and threat to the iconic al-Aqsa Mosque could provoke reprisals.”
Jerusalem’s cobbled streets are rumbling, tension is mounting, war is brewing. This is sobering. But it is also incredibly exciting. (Brad MacDonald, Jerusalem: Your Thermometer for Measuring Crises, April 16, 2009)

The next day, a spokesman from Hamas’s military wing, Abu Ubayda, “threatened Israel of an ‘explosion’ if it continues to consolidate control of Jerusalem,” the Maan News Agency reported. Watch for tensions between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem to increase. (The Week in Review, April 18, 2009.)

The next day, a spokesman from Hamas’s military wing delivered a
prophetically electrifying response to Israel’s efforts to defend itself
against illegal Arab intrusions. Hamas official Abu Ubayda “threatened
Israel of an ‘explosion’ if it continues to consolidate control of
Jerusalem,” the Ma’an News Agency reported. Ubayda also warned that “the
Judaization of Jerusalem and threat to the iconic al-Aqsa Mosque could
provoke reprisals.”
Jerusalem’s cobbled streets are rumbling, tension is mounting, war
is brewing. This is sobering. But it is also incredibly exciting. (Stephen Flurry and Brad MacDonald, What Will Trigger the Next World War?, July 2009.)

Fatah’s relationship with Iran was also on the congress’s agenda. A
draft leaked before the conference stated, “We must work toward opening a
strategic channel to Iran.” In July, the Palestinian Authority and Iran
held their first-ever high-level meeting. Fatah’s Jerusalem affairs
liaison openly called for a stronger relationship with Iran three days
before the Fatah conference in comments to Ma’an News Agency. (Richard Palmer, ‘Moderation’ in the Middle East, October 2009.)

“‘President Mahmoud Abbas attended the funeral, reciting passages of the
Koran in [Amin] Al-Hindi’s honor,’ the Palestinian news agency Ma’an
reported. It quoted top Fatah official Zakariah Al-Agha as calling
Al-Hindi a ‘patriotic leader’ and a ‘martyr.’ ‘Fatah sources said
Al-Hindi was given the homage befitting a hero both in the West Bank and
Gaza, said the Gulf News of Dubai’” (cnsnews.com, August 20). (Ron Fraser, Why the Mideast Peace Talks Will Fail—Again, August 23, 2010.)

In al-Sabireen, Iran has found a group willing to wipe out the “Zionist
entity” and replace it with an Islamist empire. Its leader told
Palestinian news agency Ma’an that the group is “an armed branch whose
goal it is to wage war on the Israeli occupation everywhere.”(WorldWatch, April 2016.)

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Keep Somalia's Remittances Open

I encourage readers to sign this petition from Oxfam calling upon the U.S. government to let the Somali diaspora continue to send remittance to their loved ones in Somalia.

Moves have been made to shut down such remittances from Somalis in America. Many Somalis need these remittances. The remittances to Somalia are larger than foreign aid contributions and are a lifeline to these people caught in trouble and turmoil.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.